Podcast: Matti Friedman on the Russian Aliyah—Thirty Years Later https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/israel-zionism/2020/11/podcast-matti-friedman-on-the-russian-aliyah-30-years-later/

The Israeli journalist and author of our November essay joins us to talk about the lives featured in his work.

November 19, 2020 | Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Matti Friedman

About the author: A weekly podcast, produced in partnership with the Tikvah Fund, offering up the best thinking on Jewish thought and culture. Matti Friedman is the author of a memoir about the Israeli war in Lebanon, Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War (2016). His latest book is Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel (2019).

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak greets immigrants arriving by plane from Moscow on May 7, 2000 in Tel Aviv. SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images.

This Week’s Guest: Matti Friedman

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